i mean he's sitting in logar province miles from the pakistani border. i take him at his word. i think he's probably telling the truth. most of those guys are locals from that area. >> i'm sure, i'm sure that there are indigenous afghan fighters who are fighting with the taliban. of course there are. and i'm also sure that they are getting significant external support. >> these are the facts: the pakistani military through the isi provides intelligence to the taliban on nato and us and ana operations. they provide even training for them and resources and logistics. >> the sound of the military jets returns, but the fighters don't seem too worried. >> they even stop to pick up fruit on the way. but i'm concerned about the nato planes circling above us. >> i just saw two fighter jets in the air, flying very low, possibly targeting us i'm scared as hell. >> but the planes didn't attack us >> it's not a major attack. it's a small group of taliban, it lasted for a couple of hours. for those types of attacks isaf planes don't normally engage. there are much larger attacks 200, 300 ta

i mean he's sitting in logar province miles from the pakistani border. i take him at his word. i think he's probably telling the truth. most of those guys are locals from that area. >> i'm sure, i'm sure that there are indigenous afghan fighters who are fighting with the taliban. of course there are. and i'm also sure that they are getting significant external support. >> these are the facts: the pakistani military through the isi provides intelligence to the taliban on nato and us and ana operations. they provide even training for them and resources and logistics. >> the sound of the military jets returns, but the fighters don't seem too worried. >> they even stop to pick up fruit on the way. but i'm concerned about the nato planes circling above us. >> i just saw two fighter jets in the air, flying very low, possibly targeting us i'm scared as hell. >> but the planes didn't attack us >> it's not a major attack. it's a small group of taliban, it lasted for a couple of hours. for those types of attacks isaf planes don't normally engage. there are much larger attacks 200, 300 ta

i mean he's sitting in logar province miles from the pakistani border. i take him at his word. i think he's probably telling the truth. most of those guys are locals from that area. >> i'm sure, i'm sure that there are indigenous afghan fighters who are fighting with the taliban. of course there are. and i'm also sure that they are getting significant external support. >> these are the facts: the pakistani military through the isi provides intelligence to the taliban on nato and us and ana operations. they provide even training for them and resources and logistics. >> the sound of the military jets returns, but the fighters don't seem too worried. >> they even stop to pick up fruit on the way. but i'm concerned about the nato planes circling above us. >> i just saw two fighter jets in the air, flying very low, possibly targeting us i'm scared as hell. >> but the planes didn't attack us >> it's not a major attack. it's a small group of taliban, it lasted for a couple of hours. for those types of attacks isaf planes don't normally engage. there are much larger attacks 200, 300 ta

and they were looking at logar province south of the capital and saying they were at the seeing and hearing intelligence reports that the taliban might be about to attack election targets there. so the country is very much on stand by for an election. whether it's expected to be a very high turnout. >> david, thank you very much indeed. david loin in kabul. . >>> 28 days after the malaysian airliner disappeared the underwater hunt for the mh-370's so-called black box is under way. richard westcott explains the technology now on location to discover where flight mh-370 is and why it disappeared. >> the seabed in that part of the world is like under water alps. 4.5 kilometers deep. 2.5 kilometer high mountains. now, that is the kind of terrain that hides its secrets. this is what investigators are after. the black box that should solve this puzzle. how to find them. well, this piece of american kit shaped like a stingray will lead the search. it is a towed ping locator. now, they might get lucky but it's a long shot. they will be across an area. there's another on stand by as well. this under

reports of taliban fighters threatening people not to vote and already a blast in afghanistan's logar province wounded at least for now the other big issue here is of course the voting fraud and let's get some analysis on this issue now for that i'm joined by political analyst. he's the vice president of the afghanistan justice organization thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us the two thousand and nine election of course was marred by voting fraud what are the challenges facing afghanistan for this election in this election is that people are already out of the previous times and also got a very key. leaders will be. will be. government. challenges that could be existing because. the war and before. the election and there aren't some polling stations in the provinces of. produce morning we have. the cases but these challenges cannot be to go to in order to stop the elections or strabo people who go to the polling stations and there will be fraud there will be very real but not. in order to bring i'm going to question the legitimacy of the. results of these voting systems thro

reports of taliban fighters threatening people not to vote and already a blast in afghanistan's logar province wounded at least for now the other big issue here is of course the voting fraud you know it's very difficult to imagine that this election will be any less more controversy and fraud than previous ones this morning to analysts we've spoken to we will be keeping you up to date on all of the developments as they happen the voting is still underway here in afghanistan and of course a historic milestone for this country this would be the first democratic transfer of power if the vote goes off as planned so afghans are hoping the election will pave the way to stability. has been meeting some of the living through the turmoil in afghanistan and she's been taking some pics of pictures too and this is a picture that was actually lost a daughter in a taliban attack in a guest a week before the election the next one is only twelve years old and he was shot by the taliban and is now recovering in hospital and his mother you might be able to see she's burning scraps of cardboard the bottom left o

well in march a nato airstrike resulted in the deaths of five afghan soldiers in the eastern logar province when a bomb hit a military checkpoint eight others were also injured in that incident now is something else to keep in mind is that the coalition and afghan forces are not alone in this war there are also a number of military contractors that are working in the country the total death count for military contractors is much more difficult to come by but we do know that at least two people were killed in afghanistan in the month of february and that the number of contractors killed in afghanistan and in iraq as well has gone up in recent years finally let's take a look at the number of civilians killed in this war now attacks still happen on a near weekly basis a march twenty first bombing on a luxury hotel in kabul killed nine civilians and just this week ten more civilians were kidnapped and killed in the run up to the country's elections these attacks are only expected to increase the closer that the country moves to these elections in order to deter the people from actually voting t